Jose Francisco D’Angelo is winning races. Lots of races. He would like to be able to win more of the better races. That seems to be on the horizon. Through Tuesday, D’Angelo has 33 wins this year, which ties him for seventh in the nation. He ranks second in wins at Tampa Bay Downs, fourth at Gulfstream Park. While many of those victories have come in the claiming ranks, D’Angelo won the first North American graded stakes of his career when No More Time captured last month’s Grade 3 Sam F. Davis at Tampa Bay Downs. D’Angelo has a potential up-and-comer in the older male sprint division with Run Classic, who on Feb. 24 won the Gulfstream Park Sprint Stakes impressively and has been invited to Dubai for the Golden Shaheen. Saturday, No More Time will look to punch D’Angelo’s first ticket to the Kentucky Derby when he runs in the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby. “For sure, I am looking to upgrade my barn, better horses,” D’Angelo, 33, said Tuesday at the Palm Meadows training center where he has 72 of his 97 horses in training. “When you get that claimer, you have to figure out the problem. When you get that baby, you have to figure out the horse. If he is long, short, dirt, turf.” :: KENTUCKY DERBY 2024: Derby Watch, point standings, prep schedule, news, and more D’Angelo had good teachers in his native Venezuela, where his grandfather and father were both trainers. D’Angelo – who gets his name from his grandfather Jose and father Francisco – became the youngest trainer to win Venezuela’s marquee race, the Classico Simon Bolivar, with Dreaming of Gold in 2014.